A man was shot in the back in Baltimore's Cherry Hill neighborhood late Saturday, city police said.
Police said they found the 27-year-old victim in the 1100 block of Shellbanks Road just after 10 p.m. He told them that two men he didn't know approached him there, and one shot him with a handgun before both fled.
The shooting victim was taken to a local hospital. Police did not identify the victim.
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Copyright © 2015, The Baltimore SunBaltimore police are investigating three separate shootings in the city, including one in which a minor was injured.
Two men were shot in separate incidents in Baltimore Sunday, police said.
A fire in an vacant dwelling on Monroe Street has blocked the street between Wilkens and Ohio avenues, according to the Baltimore Office of Emergency Management.
An Owings Mills man was convicted on drug and weapon charges after federal authorities said he was selling cocaine and heroin in Harford County, prosectors said Wednesday.
Police are investigating the killing of a 77-year-old Jefferson woman, who died shortly after she was found lying injured in the front yard of her home near Frederick Monday, authorities said.
In an effort to reduce violent crime, Baltimore officials and Metro Crime Stoppers are giving $500 rewards for tips that lead to illegal gun forfeitures.
Prosecutors announced new indictments Monday of Baltimore jail staff, the same day a top corrections official testified in the federal corruption trial of eight inmates and corrections officers about the difficulty containing misconduct in the system.
Baltimore County Police say one man was shot and another assaulted Sunday evening during a street robbery in Halethorpe.